Vietnam

Vietnam is defined as a southeast Asian country on the South China Sea.

An example of Vietnam is the country east of Cambodia.

Vietnam

country on the E coast of the Indochinese Peninsula: ruled by the French from mid-19th cent. until 1945; partitioned into two republics ( & ) in 1954; war between the two republics (see Vietnam War) ended with the defeat of South Vietnam & reunification of the two republics (1976) as the : 127,246 sq mi (329,566 sq km); pop. 64,412,000; cap. Hanoi

Origin of Vietnam

Vietnamese Viet, name of people + nam, south

Vietnam

A country of southeast Asia in eastern Indochina on the South China Sea. It comprises the historical regions of Tonkin, Annam, and Cochin China, much of which was under Chinese control from the 3rd century BC to the 15th century AD. Portuguese traders arrived in 1535, and the area came under French influence in the mid-19th century as part of French Indochina. After the fall of the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, it was partitioned into North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The Vietnam War (1959–1975) grew out of the attempt by Communist Vietcong guerrillas backed by North Vietnam to overthrow the US-supported regime in the south. The South Vietnamese government collapsed in 1975, and the country was reunited in 1976. Hanoi is the capital and Ho Chi Minh City the largest city.

Vietnam

Vietnam

Proper noun

A country in Southeast Asia, on the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula, officially named Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

The Vietnam War.

Noun

(plural Vietnams)

A long war which a dominating foreign occupier of a place (the site of the war) cannot win.

another Vietnam

the Soviet Union's Vietnam (the 1979-89 occupation of Afghanistan)

Origin

The name Vietnam or Viá»‡t Nam (IPA(key): /vjÉ™Ì€tnam/) is a variation of "Nam Viá»‡t" (å—è¶Š; pinyin: NÃ¡nyuÃ¨; literally Southern Viá»‡t), a name that can be traced back to the Trieu dynasty of the 2nd century BC. The word Viá»‡t originated as a shortened form of BÃ¡ch Viá»‡t (ç™¾è¶Š; pinyin: BÇŽiyuÃ¨), a word applied to a group of peoples then living in southern China and Vietnam.

Sentence Examples

During the Vietnam era, a slogan (or question, or k?an) went, "Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?"

Five decades later, in an essay called "Why Men Love War," screenwriter and Vietnam War veteran William Broyles Jr. argued that war "is, for men, at some terrible level the closest thing to what childbirth is for women: the initiation into the power of life and death."

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When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits. Parents need to protect their kids from watching that stuff. Johnny Depp